WOMEN’S SOCCER: Current UCLA players
Bristyn Davis and Stacy Lindstrom
will play for the U.S. Under-19 Women’s National Team tonight
when the squad faces Japan at the Home Depot Center in Carson at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the U.S. recorded a 2-0 win against the
Netherlands. Both UCLA players played the entire second half of the
match. Kerri Hanks and Alexa
Orand scored the goals for the U.S. The matches are part
of the 2004 Philips Lighting U-19 Women’s Soccer
Invitational. China faces the Netherlands today at 4 p.m. In
Tuesday’s other game, Japan beat China 2-1.
PAC-10 FOOTBALL: The San Francisco Bowl has
changed its name to the Emerald Bowl, after the Bowl signed a
three-year contract with the sponsor on Wednesday. The Bowl game
features the sixth-place team from the Pac-10 and a team from the
Mountain West Conference. The San Francisco Bowl was sponsored by
Diamond Walnut for the past two seasons, but the company changed
its name. The bowl’s contract with the Pac-10 extends through
2005. Its contract with Emerald Nuts extends through 2006. “¢bull;
According to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, the
executive director of the 2003 Silicon Valley Football Classic bowl
game which featured UCLA and Fresno State, C. Jay
Key, did not get his contract renewed by the board of
directors.
PAC-10 SOFTBALL: Arizona sophomore first
baseman Shelly Shultz was named Pac-10 Softball
Player of the Week and Oregon junior Ani Nyhus was
named Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for the week of March 29-April 5
Shultz drove in the game winning runs in each of Arizona’s
two wins against UCLA over the weekend. Nyhus faced threw
one-hitters against Stanford on Sunday and Portland State on March
29.
Compiled by Gilbert Quiñonez, Bruin sports senior
staff. With reports from the Associated Press.